{"id":133049,"date":"2025-12-09T09:47:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T09:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=133049"},"modified":"2025-12-09T09:47:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T09:47:56","slug":"rsf-says-67-journalists-killed-in-2025-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/133049\/","title":{"rendered":"RSF says 67 journalists killed in 2025 worldwide\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013<\/strong> In its 2025 annual report, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) warned on Tuesday that this year has become the deadliest for journalists worldwide, driven by intensifying hatred, state crackdowns, and entrenched impunity for attacks on media workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to RSF, at least 67 journalists were killed in 2025, most in targeted attacks rather than crossfire, underscoring what the group describes as a \u201cglobal crisis of journalist safety.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Armed forces, paramilitary groups, and criminal networks were responsible for nearly four out of five killings, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/2025-deadly-year-journalists-where-hate-and-impunity-lead\">report<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report also documented 503 journalists detained and 135 missing across all regions, reflecting severe deterioration in press freedoms from Latin America to the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Africa, and South Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The RSF said many of the missing were abducted by non-state armed groups or forcibly disappeared by security agencies, with families left without answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The organization highlighted a surge in hate campaigns and disinformation efforts that have normalized hostility toward journalists. These trends, the watchdog warned, create environments where violence becomes predictable, even \u201cexpected,\u201d in the absence of accountability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">States that restrict media, as well as armed groups that treat reporters as threats, have contributed to what RSF called a \u201cglobal erosion of the right to inform.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report urges governments and international bodies to strengthen protection mechanisms, prosecute perpetrators of attacks on media workers, and recognize journalists as civilians whose safety is essential to democratic stability and conflict transparency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The RSF concluded that reversing the current trajectory requires political will as much as legal reform, insisting that \u201cjournalists are not collateral victims \u2014 they are being deliberately targeted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>By Jwan Shekaki<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013 In its 2025 annual report, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) warned on Tuesday that this year has become the deadliest for journalists worldwide, driven by intensifying hatred, state crackdowns, and entrenched impunity for attacks on media workers. 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